And, believe it or not, the flashy new anime film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, has more in common with the Rankin/Bass animated Tolkien efforts than you might realize.
The lineage video is for the film 'The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim' and it can be watched below. For those of you that are curious about the film and what it's all about ...
If you want to read The Lord of the Rings (and its appendices) before or after watching The War of Rohirrim, Amazon still has the Tolkien Illustrated Series on sale for very close to Black Friday ...
SEE ALSO: How 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' adapts two pages ... on a slow but sure path to corruption. Even the white skull masks of Wulf's men call to mind the non-human ...
Kamiyama and screenwriters Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou frame The War of the Rohirrim as a historical tale told by The Lord of the Rings' Éowyn (Miranda Otto, returning in voiceover).
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim hitting the big screen. Every chance of being back in Middle-earth is a gift, and the latter, an anime directed by Kenji Kamiyama, is even set in the ...
Which is where The War of the Rohirrim comes in ... the 2D animation of the characters sits uneasily against the almost photo-realistic 3D animation of the backgrounds. It often unintentionally ...